Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1887-12-02


plenty to eat, where they formerly barely
lived. | have mad thirty garnish ments at
once in my shop, and have been running
seven mouths, and have not answered
! one single punishment.
I could absolutely weary you with testi-
mony ike that. Ceres or go on.l Mi.
Grady proceeded:
There is mani cannot give his name
Col. Maddox knows him; ne is a mem
!; Der of the ant1-prohiDiGion committees; he
is one of the largest manufacturers in this
i city, and as rule his associates are against
prohibition. He went into Col. MaddOx's
j office, and Col. Maddox slapped him on the
/ shoulder and said:
Hello! anti"
mo, sir; not much"
''Y GU are printed that way" said Col.
i Maddox.
Its wrong" be said.
What changed him? The marked and
/ undouOLed Improvement i'll the working
people. He says:
MY wife and | rode out Decatur street
| the other day. | looked at the street and
| the improved condisiOn down there, and
! said, my dear, anna PrOniDiti0nisJ from
j this time forward.
He was converted against his convic-
tlobs.
Mr. Grady turned and caught sight of
Judge Hlllyer, whose face Was beaming,
and having occasion co ask the Judge
question, said:
"By the way, doesn'5 the Judge look
happy to-night!' whereas the Audience
cheered heartily, aud the Judge laughed
ana looked happier than before.
Mr. Grady continued:
Mr.. RiOrdan Was an nntl-PrOhiblGlOnlSt
in the last race. He ca ne into Col Mad
dox's otfice-by the way, Col. Maddox 8
Office seems to be sort Of place for then
to come MIR. Riordan says: Il was an
anti ProhibitiOnist on principle :" A per
sonal liberty man l suppose L work
from 80 to 100 men and l have seen
change that DIS an honest man loving my
I felioW-mau dare not disregard, and am
for prohibition.
Ladies and gentlemen, how can you an
swer such as that? am not profound
lawyer l don't know how much personal
liberty have gOt; sometimes L wish had
more Cooking wIGn a smile at Mrs. Grady
who Sat in the audlenc5) that Is purely a
personal matter 10 which we Iced not al
! Jude furJher-I don't want any profound
knowledge of law that clouds my brain
and iud yment when such facts appeal to
me.
Col. Maddox did not vote in the last
election until The last moment. lie be-
| lleved prohibition Was lmpracslcsble aud
visionary He might have had the per-
sonal liberty Touch. He was not going to
vote and his wife said-and the wife is
nearly always the best half of the two,
and is in this case. His wife said: my
dear, you vote to. day; we have boy"
He voted under protest, he DID not De-
lieve in tit was new tangled. SIX
months afterwards he was sorry he voted
for it; looked like the town had gone to
ruin; but to-day he is a wise and lntelll-
gent man, and he has looked about him
and heard what people say and seen the
town prosper and thrill with growth
grander than she ever felt before, and be
is dyed IN the-Wool PrOhibitiOnist.
Mr.. Ruckar was the same way, and is
ready to work night and day for prohlbl-
ton.
d. you know J. G. Allen? Those who
do not are behind He WAS an anti-PrO-
hlbltionlSt; he was SO strong an anti Fro
hibitionisJ that he would not let his broth-
erin Iaw-not his moJher-ln-laW-talk to
him on the subject. He was rabid. He
did not want to discuss 1t. He had lit
tie dry goods store next TO saloon. Fro
hlbitiOn was voted in, and he has prosper
ed siuce in spite OF himself. which reminds
me of distinguished Frenchman who
| was kicked up stairs. The saloon was
vacated owing to circumstances over
| which the owner had no control. 1t did
| not look we'll vacant and Mr.. Allen rem
| ted it, and where the old Ted-eye used to
| stand he put calico, and to-day he is doing
| a splendid business, and the people who
used to go there to buy their body's falling
, and their souls damnation, go there to
buy ribbons and dresses for their wives
and little oues, as good men ought to dc.
''Seeing all this, l said, how can you
be an apti?" and ne says:
! II amt; I have changed, and [ am as
+ dry as a powder-horn."
| On Decatur street there were twenty
| three bar rooms where there are now TOUR
wine-rOoms ia what you might call the
Iasv extremitles All except one are &C.
cupied by grocers, dry goods stores, boot
/ and shoe shops, or by some sort OF bus-
ness that builds up man in place OF
traffic that tears him down. Where is the
para lysis of business? Four saloons and
nineteen stores doing business in place of
| twenty three bar-rOOms.
/ have told you in getting evidence OF
improvement of or deterioration In city
that you must go to the working classes.
| Especially is this true of Atlanta. because
this is the third city IN the United States
in the proportion of workers to population.
Lawrence, Mass, leads with 81 per cent.
of her population wage-earners. Lowell
follows with 40 per cent, and Atlanta and
Fall River tie for third place with Al per
cent.
Now, here is class Of people represent
ing in the workers of our number At per
cent Of the entire population. Add the
women and children who do mt work,
and we see this class repl esents gu to ~
per cent Of our population. Ii have
shown that this class Is benefited in al
unSpeaka bic manner by the untrled eXper-
iment OF prohibition, is 1t not our duty to
ft,..f hts sl,.t
i good Tnay come to the Creates number
"One minute further said Mr.. GRADY.
looking at his watch. (Cres of go on, go
on.l There is just ons thing further
i What harm has it donep If it has done
harm, let US see what They said we were
gOiug to be ruined, that bats and owls
would fly in and out, and the real estate
men have the renting of nine out of rem
| houses that are rented. They testify with
out break, absolutely without break,
! that they have fewer houses on their lists
| than they have ever had since they have
been in business. Two of them have adj
vertised in the last few days for 100 houses
and to-day Mr.. Tally told me that he &C
! tually left his Office because he was bored
by people VINO wanted to get somewhere
| to live in this town.
MIR. Scott told me- that he could put ten
ants in 500 houses in thirty days from to-
morrow They tell US we have lost in
population. There are jusI as many houses
In Atlanta to-day, and more, and they are
all full. Well, if the population has de-
creased who fills them Perhaps they are
occupied bv shades of Lincoln aud Jeffer-
son and Monroe
A distinguished friend of mite. and he
is my friend. and worthy of your conf
dence always, printed yesterday some fig
ures to show there are fewer street taxes
this year than last. He was CORE C. as far
as be went, but he did not get to the forks
of the creek,